You can get in touch with Jenna by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English The Catholic Church is preparing to select a new leader following the death of Pope Francis. As the College of ...

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic Church around the world, has died at the age of 88. The Vatican said ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in others such as abortion, and made inroads with ...

But on April 17th he nevertheless managed a visit to a prison in Rome. Francis has led the Roman Catholic church since Benedict XVI resigned in 2013. Born in Argentina, he is the first pope from ...

Visitors have been able to step into a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic church in Maryland for the first time – an opportunity over 320 years in the making. Historic St. Mary's City ...

Vatican City: Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning much of its pomp and privilege, but his attempts to make the Catholic Church more inclusive ...

As pontiff, Francis, who died Monday at age 88, sought to bring the Church closer to the people ... agreed to share responsibility for choosing Catholic bishops in China with the Communist ...

A decade later, he declared that being homosexual "isn't a crime", and encouraged Catholic bishops to welcome members of the LGBTQIA+ community into the Church. In December 2023, Pope Francis made ...

POPE Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement on Easter Monday. He was 88, and had recently survived a serious bout of ...

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the gaming teenager who had a deep love for Christ in the Eucharist, is about to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. Acutis will be canonized during the ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

The Vatican has confirmed the death of Pope Francis, who sat at the head of a Catholic Church encompassing more than 1 billion worshippers worldwide. The 88-year-old had greeted crowds of ...